'Turkey's process of accession will help ultimately to define what Europe is.'

'Furthermore, they reiterated ASEAN's wish to see the WTO speed up the process for the accession of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam to the organization.'

'The commission says Kosovo should be made independent by next year and embark on a four-stage process to EU accession.'

'To this process, Bulgaria will be able to add the valuable experiences it has gained in its own process towards accession so far.'

'He added that the enlargement process of the EU was a reversible process and that each candidate country should be granted accession according to its own merits.'

'The new Bulgarian Cabinet plans to accept all reforms, related to EU accession, by the end of September.'

'The process of accession is long and complex, and can tie up a lot of the available resources of the Commission.'

'This week, Bulgaria's intellectual potential will be called upon to aid the country in the process of its accession into the European Union.'

'The working party on China's accession will formally approve the package on Monday at WTO headquarters in Geneva, clearing the way for entry by the end of this year.'

'This criticism has been directed to accession to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and other treaties, without adequate consultation with or participation by the states.'

'It said the two sides agreed to hold the signing ceremony for China's accession to the treaty at a meeting between Chinese and ASEAN leaders slated for October on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.'

'That agreement resulted in Pyongyang's accession to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, but in the end Moscow did not build the promised reactors.'

'It also revealed that relevant ministers in Russia have now consented to accession to ASEAN's core Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia.'

'Certain decisions, such as interpretation of the multilateral trade agreements, waivers, and amendments and accessions, can be taken only by a specified majority vote.'

'Meanwhile, New Zealand and Mongolia are scheduled to sign Thursday the instruments of accession to ASEAN's nonaggression pact known as the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation.'

A new item added to an existing collection of books, paintings, or artefacts.

as modifier 'the accession number'

'To mark the occasion the museum's curators organized an exhibition featuring objects from the permanent collection, almost all of which were recent accessions specifically donated to celebrate the new building.'

'Researchers are kept up to date about recent accessions, loaded usually within a short time of a collection's receipt into the Library.'

'Twelve of these accessions were taken from collections of J. Bergelson and R. Mauricio.'

'Griffin, Georgia, is home to USDA's eggplant collection, which includes 770 different accessions collected from around the world.'

'‘About 50 of the 400 accessions represent more than 90 percent of the collection's true diversity,’ says Krueger.'

'substantial accessions of gold'

'The eastern frontier of the new Poland was fixed to run along the Curzon Line, while the question of the western border was left open, with a reference to ‘substantial accessions of territory in the north and west’.'

verb

Record the addition of (a new item) to a library, museum, or other collection.

'In 1945 the entire set of dining room tapestries was given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, but regrettably the panels by Reinhard were never accessioned by the medieval department and were disposed of in 1946.'

'The CSUN collection, which was accessioned by LACMIP in July 2001, is mostly regional (southern California) in scope and predominantly comprised of invertebrates, although a few vertebrate and plant fossils are included.'

'The nucleus of the center is the Clement Greenberg Collection of painting and sculpture, which was recently accessioned en bloc.'

'Four of these are known to have been accessioned in 1904.'

'Of the items now offered, more are turned away than are accepted and accessioned into the collection.'

'A select few will be digitized and displayed on the Web site and possibly accessioned as specimens in the University Herbarium.'

'Although toys have been formally accessioned into the collection since the early twentieth century, older curatorial records are not always as complete as records compiled for new acquisitions.'

'He said 33 bottles were marked for accessioning into the museum, including the Model Dairy and the Idutywa items, which were not represented in the collection.'

'Boas staged a mock funeral for Qisuk and lied to Minik about what he did with his father's body, which in fact was autopsied and accessioned to the museum's collections.'

((n.) A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined;
as, a king's accession to a confederacy.|--|(n.) Increase by something added; that which is added;
augmentation from without; as, an accession of wealth or territory.|--|(n.) A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a
corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor,
has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided
the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of
a cow becomes the owner of her calf.|--|(n.) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements
already in force between other powers.|--|(n.) The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or
dignity; as, the accession of the house of Stuart; -- applied
especially to the epoch of a new dynasty.|--|(n.) The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a
fit or paroxysm.|--|)

noun

1.
the act of coming into the possession of a right, title, office, etc.: accession to the throne.

2.
an increase by something added: an accession of territory.

3.
something added: a list of accessions to the college library.

4.
Law. addition to property by growth or improvement.

5.
consent; agreement; approval: accession to a demand.

6.
International Law. formal acceptance of a treaty, international convention, or other agreement between states.

7.
the act of coming near; approach.

8.
an attack or onset, as of a disease.
verb (used with object)

9.
to make a record of (a book, painting, etc.) in the order of acquisition.
10.
to acquire (a book, painting, etc.), especially for a permanent collection.

Examples:

"There can be accession negotiations." "There can be accession protocols." "There can be accession processes." "There can be accession partnerships." "There can be accession numbers." "There can be accession plans." "There can be accession pacts." "There can be accession delays." "There can be accession timetables." "There can be accession ots." "There can be accession criteria." "There can be accession clauses." "There can be accession bids." "There can be accession agreements." "There can be accession texts." "There can be accession terms." "There can be accession speeches." "There can be accession proposals." "There can be accession periods." "There can be accession packages."

Origin:

Late 16th century (in the general sense ‘something added’): from Latin accessio(n-), from the verb accedere ‘approach, come to’ (see accede).